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ABOUT AMY
Amy
Demma,
a New York State licensed attorney, is a
long-term family and children's advocate
beginning her legal career advising parents
of mentally and disabled children at the
Association for the Help of Retarded
Children. She has served on the Mother and
Child's HIV Task Force of the Brooklyn
Women's Bar Association and is credentialed
in Family Mediation through the Harvard Law
School Mediation Program.
Passionately committed to family advocacy, Amy is a proud affiliate of
RESOLVE: The National Infertility
Association, holding a past
Board
position as
Education Chairperson for RESOLVE,
New York City and a current
Board
position on the
Advocacy and
Legislative Committee for RESOLVE of
New England. As a member of the
American Society of Reproductive Medicine,
she sits on the Legal Practitioners Group.
Recently, Amy was invited to join the
Executive Committee of the
Reproductive Law Section of the American Bar
Association; she is also a
regular contributor to the
American
Fertility Association.
Considered an industry expert in third-party reproduction, Amy is a
published author and regular speaker on
topics related to alternative family
building, including as a guest lecturer on
the topic at Tufts University.
She has recently been quoted in
The
Chicago Tribune, interviewed by
NPR,
Vanity Fair magazine, CNN,
The Boston
Globe, The Boston Herald and The Jewish
Advocate. Amy also has
contributed to a documentary on
family-building through egg donation and
surrogacy.
Most importantly, along with her husband, Amy is the proud and blessed
parent of teen-age twins conceived through
In Vitro Fertilization.
AMY’S
APPEARANCES
September 2009
RESOLVE: The
National Infertility Association, D.C.:
Embryo Donation Workshop
October 2009
American Bar Association
Family Law Conference, Montreal:
Ethics
of Alternative Reproduction Methods
American Society
of Reproductive Medicine 65th Annual
Meeting, Atlanta
November 2009
RESOLVE of New England Family
Building Conference, Marlborough, Mass:
Fertility Treatment, Donor Choices and
Adoption
The Fertility Show, London
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SERVICES Specializing in Reproductive Law,
offering legal counsel to parents, egg
donors, embryo donors, surrogates, clinical
practitioners and agencies.
Intended Parent Services:
Counsel regarding Collaborative Family
Formation, Egg Donation
Agreement Preparation and Negotiation, Embryo Donation Agreement Preparation and
Negotiation and Service
Agreement Review
Donor
Services:
Counsel
regarding Egg Donation, Egg
Donation Agreement Review,
Counsel regarding Embryo Donation and
Embryo Donation Agreement Review
Surrogacy Services:
Counsel regarding Surrogacy
and
Surrogacy Agreement Review
Clinical Services:
Review and Counsel regarding Patient
Consents
Agency Services:
Review and Counsel regarding
Service Agreements, Review
and Counsel regarding Donor Agreements and
New York State Department of Health
Licensure Services
International Services
Counsel regarding Family Formation options
in the United States
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